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f PACKAGE 0F TOILET PAPER'. No. 352,951nfij Patented Nov. 23, 18186.

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UNITED STATES OLIVRR TI. HICKS, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ISACKAGE OF TO|LETPAPER.

PATENT OFFICE.

A SPECIFICATIO forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,951, datedNovember 23, 1886.

Application filed october 2s, i885.

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part oflthis specification, and

to the figures and letters of reference marked thereon.

M-ypresentinvention relates to an improvement upon that for whichLetters Patent of the United States were granted me on the 1st day ofSeptember, 1885, No. 325,410; and it Consists in an improved form ofbundle con structed tol permit of the more ready separation of thesheets of paper, as will be described hereinafter.

In my prior patent referred to the bundle of paper employed consisted ofone or more lengths of thin paper wound in the form of a continuousband, and havingits ends parallel to each other, so as to produce sheetsof equal width from end to end; but in my present invention I so formthe bundle'as that when compressed or attened its ends shall convergetoward one or both sides, which convergence has the effect of producingsheets narrowed at one end, or both, the narrow portions being weakerand offering less resistance tlfan the ywider portions, and constitutingpoints at l which to readily separate the sheets.

In the accompanying drawings I haveillustrated my improved form ofbundle. v

Figure l shows the mode of tearing off .the sheets.` Fig. 2 is a sideView of one of the bundles; Fig. 3, a View of a modification, andy Fig.4 is a view showing the manner of cutting the large roll of paper so asto form thev small bundles.

In the manufacture of these bundles I preferably wind a Continuous webof paper of full Width upon a mandrel ofsuitable size,with or Serial No.181,189. (No model.)

core a, and when the band has attained a sufficient thickness remove itfrom the mandrel, Hatten it into the oval or oblong shape shown in thedrawings, and cut it on the dotted lines shown in Fig. Lproducing abundle of paper of convenient size, with one of its sides narrower thanthe other, as shown. The sheets can now be separated from the roll bythe operators holding the paper in his left hand, with the smaller enduppermost, as indicated in the drawings, and tearing off a sheet; theseparation taking place at thetop of the band. As soon as a sheet isseparated the end of the next will drop down and hang in convenientposition to be in turn grasped and severed.

In Fig. 3 is shown a modified form of roll tapering toward both sides,which can be emin the other gures. The sheets removed are intended to bedoubled, and are of a shape more convenient than rectangular sheets.Breadth at one end only is requisite, and the narrowing of the otherend,while of no disadvantage,effects an economy in paper. This form ofbundle may be mounted in a fixture such as 17, 1885, Serial No. 171,895,or it may be used detached from a xture, as described.

without the interposition of the thick paper ployed, if desired; but Iprefer the one shown shown in my application for patent iiled July I donot desire to claim herein, broadly, a

roll of paper weakened at one or more points, as- I have made thatinvention the subjectlmatter of another application filed by by me onthe 17th day of July, 1885, Serial No. 171,894.

I claim as my invention- As a new article of manufacture, a roll oftoilet-paper having converging ends, substantially as described.

OLIVER H. HICKS.

Witnesses:

WM. SADLRR,.

MASON BRoss.

